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Jul 7
2026

New Quantum Sensor Opens a Window Into the Invisible Universe

Results from a UK collaboration mark a major advance toward building large-scale quantum sensors.

Jul 7
2026

NASA’s Hubble Reveals a Star-Spangled Stellar Masterpiece of 500,000 Ancient Stars

More than 500,000 stars glow in shades of red, white, and blue in a spectacular new image captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Released in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary, the image features Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s largest globular clusters. Globular clust

Jul 7
2026

NASA’s Hubble Captures a Stunning Red, White, and Blue Stellar Nursery

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking view of the stellar nursery LH 95, where brilliant blue and white stars sparkle against glowing crimson clouds of gas, creating a scene that resembles fireworks fading into a smoky night sky. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf

Jul 7
2026

New Java-Based QuimaRAT MaaS Built to Run on Windows, Linux, and macOS

LevelBlue says QuimaRAT uses encrypted plugins, OS-specific persistence, and JNA libraries to control Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.

Jul 7
2026

Opera GX Flaw Let Malicious Sites Auto-Install Mods to Steal Data From Visited Pages

Opera GX patched a flaw that let malicious sites silently install GX Mods and leak a signed-in user’s Gmail address with CSS.

Jul 7
2026

CERT/CC Warns of Hidden Admin Backdoor in Tenda Router Firmware

CVE-2026–11405 affects five Tenda firmware builds and can bypass password checks through an undocumented admin login path in /bin/httpd.

Jul 7
2026

BeyondTrust Patches Critical Auth Bypass Flaws in Remote Support and PRA

BeyondTrust fixed four RS and PRA flaws, including two pre-auth bugs that could bypass appliance access controls under specific configurations.

Jul 7
2026

16-Year-Old Linux KVM Flaw Lets Guest VMs Escape to Host on Intel and AMD x86 Systems

Januscape abuses KVM shadow MMU page reuse to panic x86 hosts, with Kim reporting a controlled full escape exploit behind the unreleased path.

Jul 7
2026

BeyondTrust warns of critical flaws in remote access software

BeyondTrust warned customers to patch two critical security flaws in its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) software that could allow attackers to bypass authentication.

The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026–40138, affects the company’s RS remote desktop and assistance platform (versions 25.3.2 or earlier) and the PRA enterprise cybersecurity solution (versions 25.3.2 or earlier). This vulnerability stems from an improper authentication weakness in the authentication subsystem, and successful exploitation enables attackers without privileges to bypass access controls and access targeted appliances, including accounts with elevated privileges.

The second one (CVE-2026–40139) patched this week stems from improper processing of BeyondTrust RS authentication requests, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable instances.

Jul 7
2026

Microsoft testing new Cloud Rebuild Windows 11 recovery feature

Microsoft has begun testing the Cloud Rebuild recovery feature in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview builds released for users in the Experimental channel.

First introduced at the Ignite developer conference in November 2025, Cloud Rebuild is a tool that can remotely trigger a complete system reinstall from the cloud for Windows 11 devices experiencing persistent problems or that have become inoperable.

“We’re introducing Cloud rebuild, a new recovery option that restores a Windows 11 PC to a clean, known-good state by performing a full OS reinstall, even when Windows won’t boot,” Windows Insider Communications Lead Stephen Lines said on Monday.